Scheme details
Area: Sunderland
Categories: Business support
Business stage: Trading business
resource.category.help-with.label: People and skills, Products and services, Operations
Key contact: Tim Pain
Contact email: Innovateandgrow@sunderland.ac.uk
Page last updated: 15 March 2024
Sunderland Innovate and Grow (SIG) brings together a range of complementary activities to catalyse and support innovation and business growth in the city.
The programme will benefit Sunderland-based companies by improving business practices, products and profits. Activity will support all steps of the innovation cycle through:
- Identifying and promoting new technologies to stimulate innovation in process, product and business model via subject innovation specialists (Arrow);
- Addressing gaps in business capacity and capability to innovate through active engagement and grant support, and student and graduate placements (Arrow and Innovation Placements);
- Spotting innovative ideas and bringing them to market through engagement with commercial partners (Northern Accelerator);
- Addressing innovation needs in the creative sector by engaging sector - specialists (Sunderland Culture Unlock Programme)